The emergence of functional architecture during early brain development

K Keunen, SJ Counsell, MJNL Benders - Neuroimage, 2017 - Elsevier
Early human brain development constitutes a sequence of intricate processes resulting in
the ontogeny of functionally operative neural circuits. Developmental trajectories of early …

Review of sleep-EEG in preterm and term neonates

A Dereymaeker, K Pillay, J Vervisch, M De Vos… - Early human …, 2017 - Elsevier
Neonatal sleep is a crucial state that involves endogenous driven brain activity, important for
neuronal survival and guidance of brain networks. Sequential EEG-sleep analysis in …

An increase of inhibition drives the developmental decorrelation of neural activity

M Chini, T Pfeffer, I Hanganu-Opatz - Elife, 2022 - elifesciences.org
Throughout development, the brain transits from early highly synchronous activity patterns to
a mature state with sparse and decorrelated neural activity, yet the mechanisms underlying …

A dataset of neonatal EEG recordings with seizure annotations

NJ Stevenson, K Tapani, L Lauronen, S Vanhatalo - Scientific data, 2019 - nature.com
Neonatal seizures are a common emergency in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU).
There are many questions yet to be answered regarding the temporal/spatial characteristics …

[HTML][HTML] Delta-and theta-band cortical tracking and phase-amplitude coupling to sung speech by infants

A Attaheri, ÁN Choisdealbha, GM Di Liberto, S Rocha… - NeuroImage, 2022 - Elsevier
The amplitude envelope of speech carries crucial low-frequency acoustic information that
assists linguistic decoding at multiple time scales. Neurophysiological signals are known to …

Measurement of neurovascular coupling in neonates

D Hendrikx, A Smits, M Lavanga, O De Wel… - Frontiers in …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Neurovascular coupling refers to the mechanism that links the transient neural activity to the
subsequent change in cerebral blood flow, which is regulated by both chemical signals and …

Facilitating early parent-infant emotional connection improves cortical networks in preterm infants

P Yrjölä, MM Myers, MG Welch, NJ Stevenson… - Science translational …, 2022 - science.org
Exposure to environmental adversities during early brain development, such as preterm
birth, can affect early brain organization. Here, we studied whether development of cortical …

White matter injury and neurodevelopmental disabilities: A cross-disease (dis) connection

E Cainelli, F Arrigoni, L Vedovelli - Progress in neurobiology, 2020 - Elsevier
White matter (WM) injury, once known primarily in preterm newborns, is emerging in its non-
focal (diffused), non-necrotic form as a critical component of subtle brain injuries in many …

Networks of cortical activity show graded responses to perinatal asphyxia

T Syvälahti, A Tuiskula, P Nevalainen… - Pediatric …, 2023 - nature.com
Background Perinatal asphyxia often leads to hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy (HIE) with a
high risk of neurodevelopmental consequences. While moderate and severe HIE link to high …

Early brain activity: translations between bedside and laboratory

HJ Luhmann, PO Kanold, Z Molnár… - Progress in neurobiology, 2022 - Elsevier
Neural activity is both a driver of brain development and a readout of developmental
processes. Changes in neuronal activity are therefore both the cause and consequence of …